Immer das Selbe gelogen

THE PERFORMANCE

CHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION
Wim Vandekeybus

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Peter Vermeersch, Charo Calvo, Carlo Wegener

CREATED WITH & PERFORMED BY
Grace Bellel, Lenka Flory, Octavio Iturbe, Peter Kern, Lieve Meeussen, Branko Potocan, Nienke Reehorst, Simone Sandroni, Wim Vandekeybus

ARTISTIC ASSISTANT
Octavio Iturbe

ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR
Anke Pesch

TECHNICAL COORDINATION & LIGHT ENGINEER
Gerhard Maraite

STAGE MANAGER
Erik Vermeulen

SOUND ENGINEERS
Christian Martin, Daniel Iturbe

DÉCOR CONCEPT
Wim Vandekeybus

TECHNICAL CONCEPT FOR THE DÉCOR
Gerhard Maraite, Patrick Vandewijer, Albert Haderer, Erik Vermeulen

BACK DROP
Isabelle Lhoas

COSTUMES
Isabelle Lhoas

FILM/CAMERA
Peter Kern, Wim Vandekeybus, Rémon Fromont

EDITORS
Walter Verdin, Franciska Lambrechts

PRODUCTION
Addison De Wit for Ultima Vez

COPRODUCTION
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; deSingel, Antwerp; The Arts Company, Boston; Encontros Acarte, Fundaçao Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana; SommerSZENE Salzburg

WITH THE SUPPORT OF
the Minister of the Flemish Community of Belgium

ULTIMA VEZ THANKS
Michael Stolhofer, Albert Haderer, Johan Daenen, Walter Verdin, Johan Van Heddegem, Franciska, the Audiovisual Center of Brussels, Jürgen Höfer, George Brugmans, Thierry De Mey, Manuela Strihavka, Claire Diez, Stéphane Chandelon

THE MUSIC

PERFORMED BY
Charo Calvo, Carlo Wegener, X-Legged Sally (Michel Delory, Bruno Deneuter, Pieter Lamotte, Michel Mast, Jean-Luc Plouvier, Eric Sleichim, Danny Van Hoeck, Peter Vermeersch, Pierre Vervloesem), Jan Weuts, George Alexander Van Dam, Jeroen Robbrecht, Jean-Paul Dessy

"One day in 1990, Wim Vandekeybus meets a rare enigma in the port of Hamburg. The enigma is sitting on a bench, looking to the sea, wearing a brown hat. It is a child of 88 years who has passed through life as a smuggler, a singer, an actor and dancer, living from little jobs. His name is Carlo Verano, and with him Vandekeybus takes the time to sit, to listen to thousands of true stories, lies that only poetry knows how to render real. He listens, films, records the old hermit and offers him company for the final voyage. Unceasingly the dance undertakes the passage from the intime to the public (and back again). Vandekeybus delivers to the scene, with Immer das Selbe gelogen, the rebellious wit of Carlo, the wise minstrel."

Jean-Marc Adolphe in the February/March/April 1996 program of Théâtre de la Ville, Paris